We have over five decades of combined social work assessment experience, meaningfully engaging and facilitating parents, including those with additional learning needs and learning disabilities, and providing creative helpful approaches to assessment.
Our mission has always been simply to meet the need for more meaningful ways of working with families and promoting improved social work practices, for better outcomes. We created a contemporary solution to the need for a specialist assessment that assists and supports everyone involved. CUBAS overcomes the frustrations of outmoded clunky and overly lengthy systems, without compromising on fairness and quality. CUBAS built in report templates promote high quality social work evidence which does justice to the gravity of decision making for children and their families, and assists the court.
Clair is experienced over many years in social work practice with children and families and in therapeutic foster care. She is widely recognised as an extremely effective professional social worker and team manager, leading consistently ‘outstanding’ rated organisations with a relentless focus on improving and maintaining services to children and families. Clair is described by Ofsted as “Consistently raising the bar in the pursuit of high-quality outcomes for children”. Clair is a robust witness with detailed insight, and professional and personal integrity.
As a highly respected manager and independent SW practitioner, Clair is dedicated to creative, constructive and meaningful work with families, and to tailoring parent/carer engagement, assessment, and change interventions to really make them count. Clair’s professional insight, creativity, professionalism and integrity are reflected throughout CUBAS and the training programme. She has brought all her expertise to the process of CUBAS development.
Geraldine is a highly regarded SW expert witness within childcare proceedings. She is experienced over 35 plus years across fostering and adoption, Child protection, Family support, including parents with
learning disabilities, Children in care, team management and Independent SW as an expert witness.
Geraldine is widely reputed for her professional balance and integrity in complex legal proceedings and childcare practice. Geraldine’s engagement techniques, her ability to establish full understanding of whole family functioning are widely appreciated by local authorities, guardians, legal professionals and the courts, as well as by families. CUBAS and the training in it incorporate Geraldine’s wide range of experience and established knowledge of her profession as well as her experience as a highly effective trainer.
Geraldine has tailored CUBAS and the training programme accordingly, to facilitate all parents in full engagement, using ‘what works’ and many creative tools to enable social workers in this complex field of family assessment to make every assessment evidence based, robust and meaningful. Also to enable timely and fully considered analysis and recommendations to local authorities and /or the court.